Author: David Kerr Cameron
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857903284
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The era of the great farms of Scotland is over now. They flourished for nearly eighty years from the mid 19th century, and those years are renowned for the strength of their characters and the legendary status of their stories. Probably the finest and richest aspect of bothy life was the ballad. Often sentimental, sometimes simplistic, they nevertheless give unrivalled detail about a vanished way of life and work. Quoting generously from the ballads, David Kerr Cameron has written a book rich in anecdote and insight. The working day was hard and long, and mealtimes consisted mainly of porridge and potatoes. Yet laughter and generosity of spirit were commonplace. For these communities, horses were as important as people, and tens of thousands of noble Clydesdales helped to cultivate the land. Ploughmen, dairymaids, bailiffs and shepherds all appear in the pages of this unique testament to the Scottish countryside. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, this volume forms a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland.
Author: David K. Cameron
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575040762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Author: David Buchan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317552903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.
Author: W. Chappell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: William Chappell
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Author: Ballad Society (London)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Author: John Payne Collier
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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